Other events include an architecture talk with journalist Dave Weinstein, cyanotype print workshop at BAMPFA, and a free concert at San Pablo Park.
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Thirst for community leads women into ‘Dignity Circle’ Ponzi scheme in new play at Berkeley’s Central Works
Playwright Lauren Smerkanich’s world premiere explores what drives people to perpetuate and fall for “gifting circle” cons.
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At Berkeley City Club, clever comic sketches explore range of Black women’s experiences
Playwright Mildred Inez Lewis’ world premiere, ‘The Museum Annex’ is a clever homage to the 1986 classic, ‘The Colored Museum.’
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At Berkeley’s Central Works stage, mothers and daughters are ‘Dreaming in Cuban’
An adaptation of Christina García’s 1992 novel, the play is about love, loneliness, suspicion, autonomy, patriotism, phantoms and spirituality.
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‘Escape from the Asylum’ is a delightful madcap comedy
The Berkeley Central Works production — a world premiere — has wit, a well-executed umbrella-sword fight and a comically melodramatic séance.
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The It List: Five things to do this weekend, Feb. 15-16
There’s a wealth of choice this weekend.
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Stimulating new version of Michael Frayn’s ‘Copenhagen’ by Indra’s Net Theater
The play focuses on a 1941 meeting between two internationally respected physicists, one Danish, one German, who were once colleagues but ended up on opposing sides in World War II.
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Berkeley City Club will be ‘endangered’ unless needed repairs are funded
As the beautiful building designed by Julia Morgan prepares to celebrate its 100th birthday, it is also kicking off a 10-year, $10 million effort to finance long-deferred structural repairs.
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Morgan’s Bar and Lounge in Berkeley holds a piece of weird, wonderful history
Architect Julia Morgan designed the Berkeley City Club without a bar, so members found era-appropriate furnishings for Morgan’s.
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Nosh on the Town: Julia’s at Berkeley City Club
Opening chef Alaun Grimaud has returned to Julia’s restaurant at Berkeley City Club. Come along with Nosh as we explore his new menu in photos.
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On the couch with Berkeley’s David Weisberg, playwright of Central Works’ premiere, ‘Totem and Taboo’
Ed Norton and Ralph Kramden (Caleb Cabrera and Bob Greene), unveil the mascot of their beloved Raccoon Lodge during a drug-induced dream journey to The Honeymooners in Central Works’ Totem and Taboo by David Weisberg. Photo: J. Norrena With Max Halberstadt’s iconic photo of the stern, cigar-bearing Sigmund Freud hanging over the mantle, the efficient […]
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Diary of a haunted summer at the Berkeley City Club
The author John Harris at the Berkeley City Club bar on night 1 of his summer stay. Photo: courtesy John Harris When writer and artist L. John Harris had to vacate his Berkeley home for a month, he checked into the Berkeley City Club, a private social club and hotel where he is a member. The Durant Avenue landmark, […]
